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A five-year, $3.2 million federal grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago in partnership with Erie Family Health Center will examine the effectiveness of two interventions to improve asthma control for children in low-income families in Chicago.

University of Illinois at Chicago professor Tonda Hughes will be one of 19 nurse-researchers inducted into the Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.

Researchers have solved the long-standing conundrum of how the boundary between grains of graphene affects heat conductivity in thin films of the miracle substance — bringing developers a step closer to being able to engineer films at a scale useful for cooling microelectronic devices and hundreds of other nano-tech applications.

New, ultra-high-field magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brain by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago provide the most detailed images to date to show that while the brain shrinks with age, brain cell density remains constant.

For Hispanics/Latinos living in the United States, growing up in a home with a regular smoker nearly doubled their chances of becoming an adult smoker. The findings are based on data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), the largest ongoing study of this ethno-culturally diverse population in the U.S.

OVCR Announcements

The Office of Research Services (ORS) is providing the following written procedure in order to streamline the process of the submission of proposals with less than full F&A.

UIC applies the full negotiated Facilities and Administrative Rate (F&A, or indirect cost) to all externally-sponsored projects. Note: The rate for industry-sponsored clinical trials is currently 25% of total direct costs.

The Office for the Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS) is pleased to inform the campus that Electronic Submission of research protocols for UIC IRB review will soon be a reality. The OVCR IT Team, as part of the Start myResearch project, has been working on a system enabling Investigators to finally go paperless. OPRS Live will soon be available to the campus. OPRS will provide additional information on the exact roll out dates when they become available.

Featured Faculty

Stacie Geller, PhD

G. William Arends Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology College of Medicine Director, Center for Research on Women and Gender Head, National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Since joining the faculty in 1995, Stacie Geller, PhD, has played an integral role in the area of women’s health, both domestically and internationally. While she is involved in many different areas of women’s health research, she says her “global maternal-health work is the most meaningful work I do.”